TV on DVD: June 23, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Food & Home, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Cable, NBC, The CW, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available today.

• Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern (Collection 3)
• The Girls Next Door (Season 5)
• Kyo Kara Maoh! (Season 1)
• The Monster Squad (Complete Collection)
• Mr. Troop Mom
• Reba (Season 6)
• Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection

Click here to see the DVD and Blu-ray film options for this week.

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Cartoon Smoking Censored

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Kids

  Cartoon fans, take note.  Your beloved characters are not safe from the Smoking Police—- not even abroad.

Due to a complaint from one viewer, a British TV channel has resorted to censoring their cartoons.  The two Tom and Jerry episodes in question involved incidents of tobacco usage.  Those scenes—more than 50 years old—are now on the cutting room floor.  Additionally, the Boomerang Children’s channel has decided to go through their entire library to rid all their ‘toons of ‘glamorized’ smoking.  Other affected cartoons could include The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby-Doo. 

Seriously—they might as well drop Scooby-Doo altogether.  Once they edit out all the van scenes, there won’t be much of a plot left.

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